Lead a hands-on engineering team to develop, support, and modernize the enterprise MDM platform. Responsibilities include solution design, coding, code reviews, sprint delivery, incident management, data migrations, CI/CD, testing, security/compliance, vendor management, and hiring/training technical staff.
The Engineering Manager, MDM will lead a team of developers responsible for the ongoing development, support, and enhancement of our enterprise Master Data Management (MDM) platform. This is a hands-on technical leadership role — the Engineering Manager will personally design solutions, write and review code, estimate work from loosely defined requirements, and solve complex technical problems — while also managing team delivery and performance.
This role operates under a "you build it, you support it" model — there is no separation between development and support teams. The Engineering Manager is accountable for platform stability, sprint delivery, code quality, SLA compliance, and team performance across customer, supplier, contact, and item domains.
The successful candidate must be a seasoned technical problem-solver first and a people manager second. They will work closely with the MDM Architect (who drives technical direction and design authority) and the Program Manager (who drives roadmap, stakeholder communication, and cross-functional coordination).
Key Responsibilities Engineering Leadership & Team Management
- Lead and manage a team of developers supporting and enhancing the MDM platform
- Conduct sprint planning, prioritization, and ensure consistent monthly sprint delivery
- Perform code reviews to maintain high code quality standards
- Hire, onboard, and rapidly build capability in new team members
- Foster a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement
- Enforce the "you build it, you support it" model — ensure developers own their features through production support
- Drive technical debt reduction and code optimization initiatives
- Monitor and report on platform KPIs and team performance metrics
- Work with platform vendors to drive open product issues to closure
Platform Development, Enhancement & Support
- Lead the design and development of new MDM capabilities and features
- Personally design solutions for complex problems and estimate effort from loosely defined requirements
- Evaluate user stories, establish story points, and create delivery schedules
- Oversee requirements gathering, design, development, and testing activities
- Ensure adherence to software development best practices across the full SDLC
- Manage incident resolution within established SLAs
- Triage and resolve complex data issues spanning multiple systems
- Oversee change management processes and ensure smooth deployments
- Conduct post-production validation and manage release reversals when needed
- Drive platform enhancements to improve stability and operational efficiency
- Lead large-scale data migrations and bulk update operations in the MDM environment
- Onboard new systems, organizations, and datasets to the MDM platform
- Handle complex data reconciliation and synchronization across systems
Platform Migration & Modernization
- Lead the technical execution of MDM modernization
- Plan and execute phased migration strategy ensuring zero data loss and minimal business disruption
- Design and validate data mapping between legacy and target platforms
- Ensure feature parity and regression testing throughout migration phases
Technical Quality & Testing
- Design and think through complex testing scenarios for platform changes
- Lead unit testing, system integration testing, UAT, and non-functional testing efforts
- Maintain and execute regression test cases during significant platform changes
- Design and implement CI/CD pipelines for automated deployment
- Conduct DR (Disaster Recovery) testing and ensure business continuity
- Debug, refactor, and rewrite code to improve performance and maintainability
Security & Compliance
- Ensure security best practices are followed across all platform development
- Oversee static and dynamic code analysis to identify and remediate vulnerabilities
- Ensure SOX compliance for all platform changes and controls
- Maintain secure coding standards and conduct security reviews as required
Required Qualifications Technical Expertise
- MDM Platform Experience: 8+ years hands-on experience working with at least one MDM platform (e.g., Informatica MDM, Reltio, SAP MDM, or similar)
- SQL Proficiency: 8+ years of experience and advanced knowledge of SQL for complex queries, data analysis, and troubleshooting
- Coding Skills: Hands-on ability to write, debug, refactor, and rewrite code — this is not a management-only role
- Problem-Solving: Proven ability to design solutions for complex problems and triage issues spanning multiple systems
- Data Migration: Extensive experience with large data migrations and bulk update operations in MDM environments
- System Integration: Experience onboarding new systems, organizations, and datasets to MDM platforms
- Data Mapping & Integration: Hands-on experience with data mapping and integration using at least one integration platform
- Event driven architecture: Experience with event-driven architecture and API-first integration patterns
- AI/ML: Familiarity with AI/ML concepts for data matching and deduplication
- Agile: Experience with Service Now agile and project management modules
Software Development Discipline
Deep knowledge of the complete software development lifecycle including:
- Requirements gathering and analysis
- Technical design and architecture
- Development and coding standards
- Unit testing and test automation, System integration testing (SIT), User acceptance testing (UAT), Non-functional testing (performance, security)
- CI/CD pipeline implementation and management. Change management and deployment processes
- Release management including release, post-production validation, roll back planning and execution
Delivery Management
- Ability to estimate effort, duration, and resource requirements from loosely defined requirements
- Experience evaluating user stories, establishing story points, and creating delivery schedules
- Proven track record of sprint planning, prioritization, and consistent delivery
- Experience managing SLAs and meeting incident resolution targets
- Discipline to maintain regression test cases and ensure platform stability during significant changes
- Experience running daily scrums
Leadership & Communication
- 12+ years of experience managing technical teams of 8+ developers
- Experience hiring, onboarding, and retaining technical talent
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to explain complex technical problems in business-friendly language
- Experience creating design and technical documentation
Preferred Qualifications
- Multi-domain MDM experience (customer, supplier, contact, item)
- Manufacturing industry experience across multiple countries
- Familiarity with AI and ML modeling and production integration
- Familiarity with Graph databases
Work Authorization
No calls or agencies please. Vertiv will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States. This is not a position for which sponsorship will be provided. Individuals with temporary visas such as E, F-1, H-1, H-2, L, B, J, or TN or who need sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, are not eligible for hire.
Equal Opportunity Employer
We promote equal opportunities for all with respect to hiring, terms of employment, mobility, training, compensation, and occupational health, without discrimination as to age, race, color, religion, creed, sex, pregnancy status (including childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression (including transgender status or sexual stereotypes), genetic information, citizenship status, national origin, protected veteran status, political affiliation, or disability.
Similar Jobs
Blockchain • Fintech • Payments • Consulting • Cryptocurrency • Cybersecurity • Quantum Computing
Leads and manages software engineering teams developing scalable Java, cloud, and microservices-based products and platforms. Responsibilities include architecture leadership, hands-on development, code reviews, technical design, agile delivery, engineering quality, cloud enablement, streaming analytics, recruiting, mentoring, and stakeholder collaboration. The role oversees the full software development lifecycle and advances high-volume data access, platform strategy, and engineering productivity.
Top Skills:
AWSAzureCi/CdDockerGitJavaMicroservicesOpenapiPcfReact-SpringRest ApisServerlessSpring BatchSpring FrameworkSQLSwagger
Blockchain • Fintech • Payments • Consulting • Cryptocurrency • Cybersecurity • Quantum Computing
Leads two software engineering teams while splitting time among technical leadership, people management, and recruiting. Responsibilities include code reviews, technical backlog ownership, technology debt reduction, architecture review, production support, operational readiness, infrastructure coordination, and continuous refactoring. Requires hands-on expertise in Java, J2EE, Spring, Spring Boot, RESTful web services, event-driven architecture, scalable web services, and vulnerability remediation.
Top Skills:
Event-Driven ArchitectureJ2EeJavaRestful Web ServicesSpringSpring Boot
Blockchain • Fintech • Payments • Consulting • Cryptocurrency • Cybersecurity • Quantum Computing
Leads software engineering teams responsible for building, modernizing, and operating a global, multi-tenant rewards platform. Responsibilities include people leadership, service ownership, delivery planning, technical guidance, production readiness, incident resolution, reliability, security, observability, cloud modernization, agile execution, and stakeholder collaboration. The role drives engineering quality, operational excellence, automation, documentation, and improvements to DORA metrics across high-volume platform services.
Top Skills:
APIsCi/CdCloud PlatformsContainersData PipelinesDatabasesDevOpsObservabilityPrivate CloudPublic Cloud
What you need to know about the Pune Tech Scene
Once a far-out concept, AI is now a tangible force reshaping industries and economies worldwide. While its adoption will automate some roles, AI has created more jobs than it has displaced, with an expected 97 million new roles to be created in the coming years. This is especially true in cities like Pune, which is emerging as a hub for companies eager to leverage this technology to develop solutions that simplify and improve lives in sectors such as education, healthcare, finance, e-commerce and more.
